Saturday, February 27, 2016

5 Things You Don’t Know: U.S. Aircraft Carriers (Video)


WNU Editor: I learned something new .... according to this video 12 U.S. aircraft carriers were sunk during the Second World War .... I thought the number was 6.

1 comment:

Jay Farquharson said...

They are including seaplane tenders
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Langley_(CV-1)
, escort carriers
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gambier_Bay_(CVE-73)

and light carriers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Princeton_(CVL-23)


The US only lost 6 Fleet Carriers during WWII.